A taste of the big time

JERSEY’S Audrey Bois and Kirsten McArthur got a taste of  the professional game in the qualifying round of the Ladies’ $10,000 Caversham International tennis tournament.


We won’t be going away

From Richard Murphy and Markus Meinzer of Tax Justice Network. We note your editorial ‘Harder work for the critics’ (JEP, 5 November). We suspect you would include us among the ‘critics of Jersey’, although that is not true; we are critics of the offshore financial services industry wherever it is to be found. The recently [...]


A winning plan from St Ewolds

RESIDENTS of a St Helier care home have won a prestigious national competition.


A third of States primary leavers lack skills

AROUND a third of children left States primary schools this year without the expected literacy and mathematics skills.


Pursuing trade links with India

JERSEY’S trade links with India could be advanced when a group of finance experts visit Mumbai and New Delhi next week.


Development of event-led tourism is such a non-event

THE tourism industry is having a hard time of it at the moment, but we have a plan. It’s not much of a plan yet, and it’s several years late, but at least it’s a plan and a step forward.


Welcome protection scheme

THE recent Foot report on the Crown Dependencies and Britain’s Offshore Territories cast Jersey in a very favourable light.


What is the state of our economy?

HOW long Jersey is likely to remain in a recession is expected to be revealed tomorrow by a group of independent economists.


Jerseyman top Brit on World Tour Longboard Tour

JERSEY surfer Ben Skinner has finished the Association of Surfing Professionals’ World Longboard Tour as the highest placed Briton in tenth place.


Propaganda has come to Jersey

From Barry Runacres. IT appears that the propaganda concerning the Afghan war has now spread to Jersey (JEP, 7 November).

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.